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Nini Theilade
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Joined the Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo in 1938 and danced as a lead dancer with the troupe through the war years.
Her mother was the grand-daughter of the sultan of Jocjacarta, Java and her father descended through two generations of Danish clergymen.
Ballerina, choreographer and dance teacher, a child prodigy.
Studied ballet in Paris with Swedish ballerina Carina Ari and with Nadia Burosova.
Discovered by Max Reinhardt when she was 14 and cast as a fairy ballerina in his version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Set up a dance school in Lyon, France, that bears her name, the Academie de Ballet Nini Theilade.
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